I will admit to a desire to share the opportunity, as well, especially (and quite strongly!) when I think it might make a difference in how someone thinks or acts in the future. Some savageries do not prosper when brought to visibility.
I so adored that cartoon! Now I really wish I could find it again! I shall keep an eye out for it.
Thank you for the recommendation for "The Good Place". I will check it out! ...This is a very unusual thing for me to say. I don't watch much watchable stuff; I got tired of the misogyny and other asshattery* in what passes for entertainment in like 1979 and will only venture back by special recommendation since. A recommendation from a person who thinks about ethics is worth checking out.
I suspect I agree with you about (simplified) Socrates. The people who do better, in my experience, are indeed people who consider; but the people who are happy are overwhelmingly the people who do not consider, who go out of their way to not consider, and who do better if and only if they are faced with peer pressure. Knowledge isn't enough for doing better, because doing better comes at a personal cost and most don't feel like it. Honesty is an enormous investment, overwhelming for some (most), and... yes. Horror. Ongoing.
* unexamined, tacitly accepted and condoned, and thereby promulgated
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I so adored that cartoon! Now I really wish I could find it again! I shall keep an eye out for it.
Thank you for the recommendation for "The Good Place". I will check it out! ...This is a very unusual thing for me to say. I don't watch much watchable stuff; I got tired of the misogyny and other asshattery* in what passes for entertainment in like 1979 and will only venture back by special recommendation since. A recommendation from a person who thinks about ethics is worth checking out.
I suspect I agree with you about (simplified) Socrates. The people who do better, in my experience, are indeed people who consider; but the people who are happy are overwhelmingly the people who do not consider, who go out of their way to not consider, and who do better if and only if they are faced with peer pressure. Knowledge isn't enough for doing better, because doing better comes at a personal cost and most don't feel like it. Honesty is an enormous investment, overwhelming for some (most), and... yes. Horror. Ongoing.
* unexamined, tacitly accepted and condoned, and thereby promulgated